19477 | General relativity predicts black holes, as former massive stars, and as galaxy centres [New Sci.] |
Full Idea: Black holes are predicted by general relativity, and are thought to exist where massive stars once lived, as well as at the heart of every galaxy. | |
From: New Scientist writers (New Scientist articles [2013], 2013.06.15) | |
A reaction: Since black holes now seem to be a certainty, that is one hell of an impressive prediction. |
19952 | Black holes have entropy, but general relativity says they are unstructured, and lack entropy [New Sci.] |
Full Idea: Black holes have a temperature, and hence entropy. ...But if a black hole are just an extreme scrunching of smooth space-time, it should have no substructure, and thus no entropy. This is probably the most obvious incompleteness of general relativity. | |
From: New Scientist writers (New Scientist articles [2013], 2015.11.07) |